The Best UPUA Election Write-Ins, 2017 Edition

Even though this year’s UPUA election shattered student voter turnout records, some people chose not to vote for actual candidates at all. When you give 40,000 students the reins to elect whoever they want, strange things can happen.

Here’s your friendly reminder that a gerbil nearly won the student body presidency with a write-in campaign.

Katie Jordan and Alex Shockley handily won this year’s executive race, but voters still wrote in 87 votes for neither Jordan/Shockley or the competing Geisinger/Zurita-Coronado ticket. Twenty at-large representative seats were filled, but voters managed to come up with a total of 203 write-in representative candidates — some more creative than others.

Without further ado, these are by far the best write-in votes of the 2017 UPUA Election.

Harambe — 1 Presidential, 13 At-Large

Always in our hearts and in our student government assembly.

Donald Trump — 5 Presidential, 7 At-Large

Although Hillary Clinton won Centre County in the actual presidential election, a number of students think the president of the United States would be a great fit for student body president, as well.

Penn State Superfan — 2 Presidential, 1 At-Large

Your friendly neighborhood Penn State Superfan. We like to imagine this write-in fighting crime in Happy Valley.

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